the " tell you about it " was irritating but , under the circumstances , i had to ignore it ." i enjoyed the television program , rose . it was very good ."
"yes ," she repliedd somply . " it was , wasn't it ? we had a lot of fun making it . it came about by serendipity . i was mulling over the idea and hal introduced me to a producer . it took a lot of haggling and i had to persuade them i was the right person to front it , but we got there ." she made a rueful mouse of her mouth , which invited me to enter into a solidarity with her ." camara adds ten pounds , though . not that one should mind ."
i was trying not to stare too obviously . but i could not avoid the conclusion that the woman standing before me was the model i had gone to alot of trouble to copy . rose had worked through the messy bits of her life , and there she was , furnished and burnished with the electricity i was supposed to possess .yet here i was , weighed down by minutiae , my lists , my children ...and my husband . then it occurred to me that hundreds of thousands of second wives had been faced with encounters such as this one , only to realize that what they had suspected was true : sibling who would never , ever catch up with the dazzling elder .
"there might be a follow-up series ," she was saying ." i had no idea .... until ..." there was a frozen little silence ." until i ...i mean i have only just discovered how vast , diverse , and wonderful the world is ."
nathan pulled himself to his feet and moved a fraction closer to rose ." don't feel you have to go ."
rose knew nathan . i knew nathna . we both knew he was making a bad job of concealing that he ached with regret .
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